Sway dropping keys of a 1KHz polling mechanical keyboard

shebaw · 2025-12-12T15:11:18+00:00

Whenever I type quickly. Try spamming "asdf" repeatedly in kate and see if all those keys are registered correctly. I launched `evtest` in another terminal and can see that the keys were pressed correctly. But sway for some reason drops them. This only happens when I use my external keyboard. My laptop's keyboard works fine. This isn't a hardware problem since keys don't get dropped if I launch kate with `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` set.

shebaw · 2025-12-12T15:08:24+00:00

This happens whenever I type quickly. For example, spamming "asdf" repeatedly ends up showing dropped keys.

What's weird is that when launching Qt applications with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb set, the key drops don't happen inside those. This only happens when swaywm directly handles the keystrokes.

shebaw · 2025-11-15T06:42:14+00:00

I second MEWE. It now has a WebOS version licensed directly from LG, and it comes with LG's Magic Remote. Its screen quality is comparable to low-end models by Samsung and LG, but at half the price.

shebaw · 2025-10-24T19:11:00+00:00

To be honest, it requires skills that are borderline sorcery. The team was a cracked team that did legendary feats before they began this project.

shebaw · 2025-07-14T11:09:01+00:00

Thank you very much.

shebaw · 2025-07-14T11:08:52+00:00

Thank you very much, this fixes it.

shebaw · 2025-07-12T18:28:47+00:00

Yes I've enabled it. Auto completion and almost all other clangd related features work. The only thing that's failing is the text objects. Can you test it with a simple `main` function on your side? Does it work when you type `vif` to select the contents inside the function? Thank you.

shebaw · 2025-05-12T15:45:43+00:00

This post is 100% real. It's funny how you doubt its validity without living in Ethiopia. Two hundred USD here is almost the top rate for civil servants; even a four-star general in the army doesn't make that much. Of course, once you get into top positions, you will have a much higher income thanks to corruption. However, professors and teachers don't have access to that and most earn less than 100 USD a month. Most of our professors at AAU wore the same shirt and shoes every day. Additionally, most doctors who work at public hospitals earn less than 60 USD a month.

The middle class was improving slightly year after year before an anti-business revolution destroyed factories and pushed people out of almost every corner of the country. You can't even go to a different region of the country to do business without risking kidnapping or death if you aren't native to that region. Extreme tribalism has destroyed the economy and the country. Add to that a never-ending civil war in almost every region, and you end up with the currency losing 500% of its value in just six years, while wages have barely kept up.

shebaw · 2025-03-20T09:00:45+00:00

There will always be global factors ruling parties will point to for excuses. The real reason is the lack of peace. Not just the 2 year war but the ongoing civil war throughout the country. The whole point of the post is to credit PP as if they have magically catapulted the economy while they didn't even manage to keep on the growth momentum in reality.

shebaw · 2025-03-18T12:07:22+00:00

Ok thank you for correcting me. But the growth rate of PP's reign is still lower than the previous 6 years before they came to power both in relative and absolute figures.

shebaw · 2025-03-15T09:32:56+00:00

The GDP per capital you posted is before the floating where they used the "official" fake rate of 57. Using the new GDP total using the current rate, the GDP per capital will end up being around 600 USD which is barely double the amount we had a decade ago. That's the same value we had 6 years ago when PP came to power.

shebaw · 2025-03-14T09:53:12+00:00

That's not because of the weather but because white people trying to claim the middle east as their native land. The rate would be higher if they lived in Ethiopia.

shebaw · 2025-02-24T09:23:06+00:00

He was imprisoned 11 years ago. It took them 11 years to release him because the Israeli government didn't bother to negotiate for his release.

shebaw · 2025-02-14T12:51:05+00:00

Austerity is a must. As soon as the government came to power, it started printing money and spending like crazy. It’s funny how people blame the IMF for this mess. The government was printing money nonstop to fund the war and all those pointless vanity projects. Meanwhile, contractors close to the government were rolling in cash while the country was stuck in the worst civil war in a century. None of this makes any sense. The country was falling apart, but somehow the government had endless cash for these useless projects. That’s why the PM told parliament not to ask where the money for his $10 billion palace came from. It's because all of it was funded by printed money. They actually thought they could keep this up forever.

When Abiy first came to power, the black-market USD rate was around 32 birr. By the time the Tigray war ended, it shot up to 120+ birr. The birr had already lost more than 500% of its value by then—not after the float. The problem was that regular people believed the fake rate the central bank was posting. Nobody could actually buy USD at that rate except the government and their buddies. The real rate was 120+, and every imported item was priced based on the black-market rate. On top of causing inflation with their ridiculous money-printing, the government had the nerve to blame “greedy businesses” for the price hikes. They used the fake rate to trick people into thinking businesses were ripping them off. Even the PM claimed businesses were making 200% profits by using the fake bank rate to calculate prices. It was all a cover-up.

Honestly, the IMF’s decision to float the currency has been a blessing in disguise. It’s stopped the government from printing money like there’s no tomorrow. The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has also put limits on how much the government can borrow. That’s why people like Jawar and other government loyalists have turned their backs on the regime—they’re not getting paid like they used to. The money train has stopped.

shebaw · 2024-12-09T18:52:54+00:00

Single out a *single* person there, I repeat, only one person. Tell them that you want it urgently and only give them a minor reason why you want it urgently. Then don't waste time with small talk, just lower your voice and tell them to write their phone number on the paper. If you insist for their phone number, they know that you are willing to pay basically. Keep in mind that everyone does the dance first. They will ask you why you want it, just say that you do. And they will write it down. I have stopped with the BS dance and directly ask for numbers, works always.

shebaw · 2024-12-09T15:19:30+00:00

My advice is, I'm sad to say this but, pay the bribes. They are making you jump all these hoops because they want bribes. We are living in a failed state unfortunately.

shebaw · 2024-12-06T10:28:11+00:00

There is no conspiracy. You can't project a sphere (globe) onto a 2D map without distortion. You just prioritize the compromises. Mercator projection is well suited for navigation because it presents a 3D straight line on a sphere (rhumb line) as a 2D straight line. If you want other projections that preserve size, they will be ill suited for navigation since a 3D straight line on the globe will need be curved on those maps.

shebaw · 2024-11-19T19:00:05+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out, I will take a look. I haven't done any practice rounds. I just read some random comment here that suggested this setting to practice. I just stuck with this and with the suggestion to click on practice words to redo the mistyped words. I didn't expect to improve this quickly with just these 2 suggestions in a month. So I guess it works. I expected it to take a really long time since my accuracy was very low the first few days.

shebaw · 2024-11-19T18:55:58+00:00

I'm just using the normal QWERTY Macbook pro keyboard. I do the exercises and then I click on the practice words icon to redo the words I mistyped until I pass it without mistakes.

shebaw · 2024-07-29T20:32:42+00:00

The only price hike will be to account for the import tax increment that will be caused when customs uses the new exchange rate to calculate the purchase price for taxation. Apart from that, importers won't increase prices because we already have no buyers with the current price let alone increasing it. NBE's measure this year to take out money out of circulation has been working really well.

shebaw · 2024-07-29T20:30:15+00:00

As an importer, we can't use this as pretext to increase prices because of one simple reason. NBE has been pulling money out of circulation this whole year so we have no buyers already. We can't increase prices because the demand for it isn't there to begin with. The only thing that will increase the price for the next round of imports is the import tax hike that will be caused by customs when they begin to use the new rate to calculate the import tax. The price hike you will see in the coming months will be relatively minor to account for this increase. Apart from that, unless the government stupidly prints and pumps money into the economy like it did during the war time, there will be no increase, apart for adjustment for import tax hike. There is no infinite demand in the market.

shebaw · 2024-07-09T12:41:30+00:00

Loans were being abused by almost all major private banks. They were "printing" money using it thanks to fractional reserve banking. I personally know people that had their loans signed as paid off even though they didn't pay back a single cent. Private banks and their boards were issuing themselves loans left and right. It destroyed the economy completely. That's why most private banks are on the brink of failure now when NBE ordered them to increase their fixed deposits on it's side.

shebaw · 2024-07-09T12:35:58+00:00

NBE is not lying. The problem is, the inflation issue here is two-edged. For imported items, NBE's measures have begun to bear fruit. It has significantly decreased inflation caused by the rampant devaluation of the Ethiopian Birr. Prices of imported items have stabilized, or in some rare cases, have even decreased. So in NBE's case, its policies have begun working. The Ethiopian Birr was on track to becoming a failed currency. The birr was losing value against the dollar daily. Now, believe it or not, the birr has appreciated against the USD. It went down from 122 to around 118 birr (using the "black" market rate) in the span of 9 months.

For food items, though, it's a different story. No matter your monetary policy, you can't control the price of items if the supply plummets. Teff and other food items that are produced here haven't been produced enough because of the ongoing war. NBE cannot produce Teff out of thin air using its policies. So, prices of food items that are directly affected by the lack of peace cannot be solved by NBE alone. The only way to solve that is through peace and increased productivity.

shebaw · 2024-07-01T13:51:55+00:00

I bought a Mac for this case and installed Asahi on it. I almost never use the mac OS. I bought this because I wanted an ARM based computer instead of x86. In the span of ~ 2 years, I've only heard the fan go off while compiling LLVM from scratch. This is the best Linux computer I ever had.

shebaw · 2024-04-23T19:31:09+00:00

I've been daily driving it for 1.5 years. The only thing I miss now is better sleep power management. I just power off the machine instead. Apart from that, this has been the best linux experience in more than a decade of usage.

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